Anxiety Can Stem From Brain Chemistry, Personality and Life Events

It’s the third time this week that a book you’ve ordered has a crease on it. It’s only a small one but this feels personal. You swear it would been better if it had fallen in a tub of ketchup.

To make matters worse you’re running late, again. You were tossing and turning the entire night, wondering if the mailman who delivered this monstrosity is a monster himself, perhaps he was spawned from hell just to make your life miserable.

You stagger into the bathroom and stare into the mirror for 5 minutes. “What is this creature?” you ask yourself, “It looks oddly familiar.”

You notice your hair is a mess, and you’ve grown a five o-clock shadow that suggests you’ve been drinking all night, although you’ve stood away from alcohol for an entire month.

Congrats. Maybe celebrate with a glass of Buchanan’s? you think.

Your belt hangs, barely attached to your waist. Your shirt –which sat in the dryer all night– is wrinkled and resembles an old napkin you kept in your pocket for an entire week. Or am I the only one who does that?…

You step out the door, pausing half way to the car, slouched and defeated, you turn around and retrace your steps, because of course, you forgot your keys on the counter. And just like every good love story, you’re caught in traffic.

You begin to question your existence. Everyone seems suspect to you. You’re convinced the entire state of Texas is in on it, and the mailman is running the whole gig– just a huge elaborate scheme to make your life a living hell.

Did you even lock the door? Too late, to hell with the consequences.

To top it off off, you’ve been arriving late to work all month, and you’re worried that this may be your last week on the job.

You’re stressed, depressed and anxious.

Too much anxiety can reshape the structure and neural pathways of our brain. This process is called neuroplasticity.

The more we’re subject to situations like this, the more common our triggers.

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I have found that meditation has helped me massively since coming off of anti-depressants last year. I wrote about it last week, the benefits and kind of an ‘honest review’ of meditation because it isn’t always easy – but it was interesting for me to read about neuroplasticity and the amygdala, I guess I haven’t really thought about the ‘science bit’ so much 🙂

That was actually something I was curious about– How meditation would affect someone coming off an antidepressant. As for the amygdala and grey matter, that’s also something I just recently discovered. I’m glad you enjoyed. =)